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Is Your Onboarding Process Preventing Clients from Accessing Therapy? How to overcome barriers to therapy

You've updated your website, created your directory listing, networked with peers and professionals, received inquiries, conducted intro sessions, and agreed to take on new clients. Yet, when it comes to that first session, they are a no-show. Has this happened to you?

Let's explore why.

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6 Essential Habits to Achieve your Goals this Year

If you want to be productive and actually have a chance at achieving your goals this year you need to have some habits in place to help you do that.

As someone passionate about helping therapists in Private Practice succeed, I've honed in on six habits that have significantly contributed to my own success. In this blog post, I'll share these habits and how they can empower you to accomplish your goals this year.

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How to Get Therapy Clients to Pay On Time

Most therapists I have worked with encounter similar issues when it comes to payments. Keeping track of payments, constantly checking their bank accounts, potentially missing payments or even overlooking whether they have received payments at all!

These problems can result in poor cash flow with their business, unpredictable earnings and the absolute time suck that is dealing with late payments.

In fact my first job for a therapist was solely working on their invoicing and getting payments under control AND it’s the reason most clients come to me in the first place.

I’m going to give you all my top tips on how you can do the same!

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How to Successfully Manage Enquiries in Private Practice [AND CONVERT MORE TO CLIENTS!]

As a therapist, mastering the art of managing enquiries is crucial for establishing strong therapeutic relationships and converting potential clients.

I've heard from lots of therapists recently that keeping on top of their enquiries can be really tricky. So here are some of my essential tips to help you optimise your approach, from attracting potential clients to providing thoughtful responses to help you convert more of them into clients.

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How therapists can prepare themselves and their clients for time off

I know that therapists can really worry about their clients during time off so I'm going to give you some tips to help you prepare both you and your clients for the holidays.

Time off is key for both you and your clients. If you're not taking regular breaks you can really burn out and you're not going to be offering the best service to your clients. So, if you are about to take a break in Private Practice or you are hoping to soon keep reading.

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10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Deciding on an EHR for your Private Practice

The 10 questions that you should be asking yourself, if you're thinking about getting an EHR for your Private Practice.

An EHR is an electronic health record system and it's a system that is specifically for therapists in Private Practice. There are loads of EHR systems on the market nowadays so I hope that thinking about the answers to these questions will help you with your choices.

The system that I recommend wholeheartedly is Power Diary so I’m going to be specifically mentioning their solutions and features in this blog.

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Why you should do your bookkeeping monthly!

Do your bookkeeping monthly may sound like the kind of sensible but boring advice that goes along with ‘eat your vegetables’ or ‘take off your makeup before you go to bed’...something you know you should be doing but just haven't found a system that makes it painless, or dare I say it, even enjoyable.

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5 Quick Gmail Tips

5 Quick tips for Gmail

Having the right systems in private practice is great but if you don’t know how to set them up properly then you’re going to be working harder than you need to.

Here’s 5 quick tips to set up Gmail in the most efficient way.

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